Ontario · Registered charity
CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION
CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,614,830 to it, the largest being THE JIM AND LORNA BLAIR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$681,100). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Silver Star Societylocal
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 65% · 2018 69% · 2019 79% · 2020 74% · 2021 78% · 2022 82% · 2023 78% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose C$173k → C$463k.
From the CRA filings of CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 34% · 2019 37% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$261k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 52 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Silver Star SocietylocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Card for Changeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Troop Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The EJP For Good Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trek for Teens Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you
- Forward Baptist Church CambridgelocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- YMCA CanadalocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 80% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION?
- CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,614,830 to it, the largest being THE JIM AND LORNA BLAIR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$681,100). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 52 organizations giving C$2,614,830 in grants to CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION?
- THE JIM AND LORNA BLAIR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$681,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMBRIDGE SHELTER CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register